When Senate[3] Sgt. at Arms Dan Erickson slipped on some Capitol steps and injured his leg last July, he was faced with a terrible fashion conundrum (as well as months of rehab).

He needed crutches, but they were so unsightly.

As one man at Erickson’s mother’s retirement home told him, “You gotta class up your act a little bit.”

So the retiree, Robert, hot glued together a bamboo cane festooned with miniature penguins, jungle cats, flowers and palm trees – anything he could find.[4]
There was just one problem, Erickson said, there was an elephant glued to the top.